I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.