I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.

I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is the perfection of it".'Perfection

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.