No one you love is ever truly lost.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.