Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.