We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Love simply is.

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Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ...

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.

I'm perfectly healthy.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.