Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Our children change us?whether they live or not.

My home is not a place, it is people.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.