Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.