When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.