"When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be."

-- Casey Treat

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“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple...Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with.... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
“So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so”
“I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.”

Source : "Art and Healing: Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe". Interview with Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History" series of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, www.youtube.com. April 16, 1999.
“Nothing big ever came from being small.”
“Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.”
“My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.”
“I would like to be famous but unknown.”

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