To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.