“Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?”

“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”

“Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!”

“Silence is treason. That is why I have spoken, why I speak and why I shall continue to speak.”

“Societal mores, religious beliefs and more importantly, traditions and habits impede the diffusion of innovations; alterations of behavioral patterns and practices require change, many adamantly oppose.”

“The Word that speaks Truth into Chaos at the beginning of time, to generate habitable order that is Good – that's the story.”

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”

“I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.”

“When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.”

“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”