There's no war that will end all wars.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.