For every wound, the ointment of time.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

The background of samsara is bliss

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.