I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.