Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how wide your cage was.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Civil law is what each people establishes for itself.

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados so you can later claim to have survived them.