The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

I think. I am. I will.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.