If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. "Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our lives from and for eternity, so he is never in a hurry.

Together we will be unstoppable.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.