This helpful war. It makes us better people and then it tries to kill us.

Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots.

People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case.”“Oh god, is it wartime already?”“Look on the bright side: it’ll be dinner when we get back.

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

Then I’m tempted to die just to … spite him.”“That’s the spirit that will win us the war.

There in the sweet sacking smell of the mail bags he understood that he was dying, and it pleased him that he was going in the company of so many soft words home.

Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others.

God’s promises are like the stars

You’ve probably heard it before—if not, you’ve likely experienced it yourself.

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

I can say, let's go to the DNA of the brand and find something that I can introduce into my work. It's part of the patrimony of fashion.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.