She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

Figured that most of life's dilemmas could be solved by asking yourself this one question: " Is it worth it--to me?

Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.