Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.