Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Keep cool. Anger is not an argument.

You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

All divine power is within you to accomplish great things.