Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.