War is an admission of failure

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

War is an admission of failure

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.