“The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes.A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.”

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”

“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”