Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.