One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.