We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.

I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

Love does not always end well.

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.

Once you witness an injustice, you are no longer an observer but a participant.” ~ June Callwood.

Sometimes we only bow but wecannot standand we only know but we cannot understand.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.