“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”

“The child in each of us Knows paradise.Paradise is home.Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place,One's own people,One's own world,Knowing and known,Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise-Into growth and new community,Into vast, ongoingChange.”

“Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment.”

“There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you.”

“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”

“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”

“To get along with God,Consider the consequences of your behavior.Earthseed: The Books of the Living”