In the desert, I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization.

The team comes first. I have to do what's right for the team and not just for myself.

A good abstraction is one that emphasizes the important details and suppresses the unimportant ones.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race； posterity as well as the existing generation； those who dissent from the opinion， still more than those who hold it.