Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

The idea that you're supposed to do everything on your own is absurd. You can't.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.