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Now you know the worst / we humans have to know / about ourselves, and I am sorry.

—Wendell Berry

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After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

—Italian proverb

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When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

—Katherine Anne Porter

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It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

—Felix Frankfurter

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War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.

—Adrienne Rich

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Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve.

—Thornton Wilder

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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

—Albert Camus

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Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one.

—Richard Paul Haight

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Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

—Benjamin Franklin

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The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

—Elmer Davis

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The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith.

—Eric Hoffer

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Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door.

—Yiddish folk saying

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There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.

—Carlos Fuentes

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