Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, spring….

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing..

He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of ….

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason..

The easiest way to do something is properly..

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't..

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way..

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters..

War is an admission of failure.

That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an ….

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible..

It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you..

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you..