“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”

“The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life form. We were a shaken, broken species, driven to the edge of extin...”

“After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.”

“America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society We like to know, and f...”

“The highest distinction is service to others.”

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

“pride was i was fine simple causeto be focus of the man who loved many sources those werehis focus . i lived in falsehood likean unknown and loved him all alone”

“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?”

“No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.”

“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirits joy and...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”