Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

I can only live in my truth.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.