The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to...

Sic vis pacem para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war.

Perhaps we don’t progress, because there are so many views – so many paths to peace and happiness – that we get hung up on each path’s differences. Trying to sort out right from wrong...

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.

Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.

The strong will always rule the weak.

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued – a time when the losses of the present must be accepted – and cut –...

To get to where you need to be, you have to go where you don’t feel prepared to go.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow...

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival...

Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead...

If you choose to keep your true face secret, then the people who know you by one mask, must never meet those who know you by another.

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution – we must protect that at all costs.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

Change isn’t always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn’t have to wear...

in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as...

Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters...

People fear what they do not understand.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient’s emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume...

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best...

Time spent worrying – about anything – provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we’re not looking at it in the right light yet.

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn’t mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have...

A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget.

Presenting a humble façade gains trust; flattery appeals to ego; combine the two to gain an ego-based trust within someone, and you will find in your hands a judgement clouding tool second only to love.

what ifs” and consequences that we could worry about, but what’s the use? Rather than plaguing our thoughts with the unknown, we should focus on and accept only what we do know – and all...

Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams… anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Our emotions hold more power over us than blade or poison alike. To embrace freely the entire spectrum of our emotions is to allow a multitude of Trojan horses containing hidden emotional poisons to circumvent...

When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity...

A man shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.