Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.