History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

Every human being desires love and happiness.

I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

Because with time, faith, and love...even our scars can become beautiful.

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.