Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Remember the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not take thyself to damn seriously.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.