He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Acquit thyself in the Lord. He will give you inner peace.

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.

If you know it... ... as conclusion there isn't a reason to continue... No mysteries no reasons. Life with it's own reasons!

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.