He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees...

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn’t win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.

[Alon Johnson] Later wrote that, “coming through a battered building near a well known and dangerous doorway. I heard something unfamiliar — the sound of excited voices somewhere in the distance. The significance of this...

The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of...

We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had...

Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they – friends from childhood – had to think about...