They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death was far more certain than God.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

Even the broken will fight

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'