Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

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.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.