Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.