Dreams largerthan ourselves we killed, not wantingour smallness measured against them."(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

Maxim 37: There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload."-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Don't cry over the shots you've missed

Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

I had to do something for the country.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Hope is necessary in every condition.