"Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves."

"Awareness is not a prerequisite for change."

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

"Sometimes it feels like you have nothing, or aren't going anywhere, but while you're waiting for fortune to deliver you, there is always something you can do to help yourself, or teach yourself to better your situation."

"Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed."

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

"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 is overrated. We're alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have."

"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 one's advantage. They are, however, operated by us " by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?"

"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 rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead."

"Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is."

"Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves."

"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 preserve the gains and providence of the future."

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

"No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win."

"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."

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

"Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be."

"You don't have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you're strong and noble enough to accept it."

"We live our days in the microscopic, but something within us calls us to dream in the cosmic " every one of us. And within us exists those two worlds: the world as it is and the world as we think it ought to be."

"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."

"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."

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

"Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether."

"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 treat people as if they are all keyholders."

"Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other's strengths; you nullify each other's weaknesses."

"You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you."

"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk " that anyone not walking it with us is being misled."

"No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough."

"Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone]."

"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 with the level of greatness it deserves."

"Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever."

"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."

"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 when the rights mean so much to us that we can't look at them objectively."

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

"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 the walls of rationalization " walls we need to protect our trust, confidence, understanding, and self-control."

"Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained."

"When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you've forgotten."

"When life brings you mountains, you don't waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them."

"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."

"Our destinations are Booleans " we reach them or we don't " but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much better."

"All things are possible; if something seems like it's not, it's only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet."

"Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow."

"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."

"Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient."

"Never judge a woman by her age."

"When you give people a choice, they believe they have power."

"There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together " if enough can be rallied to a cause, no matter how ridiculous, it will be seen and heard."

"Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word 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 masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged."

"What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?"