A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

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

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.