You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.