There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap. '
. . . man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.
Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.
Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?' 'What is to fear?" answered the black wolf. 'If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living. . . And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey.
And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.
Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.
If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.