Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only information they get about other people is through the media.