Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.

You understand my music.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.