“Fear worked both ways - if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind.”

“... and he kills without fear, or anger, or hate, with regret even, simply because its necessary. That's rare, and it's rare still among the really first-rate. God help the enemy that finally frightens him or makes him mad.”

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

“Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.”

“Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.”

“It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.”

“. . . you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.”