The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.