A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death was far more certain than God.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable

As you get old, you live and learn.

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.