The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.
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.
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.