“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

“It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.”

“It is good to praise others but it important to look for faults within oneself. It is nice to be concerned about people but to be introspective is even nicer.”

“On the king’s gate the moss grew gray;
The king came not. They called him dead
And made his eldest son one day
Slave in his father’s stead.”

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

“For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value in any of them is that they bear the image of the King.... It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”

“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”