Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.