Bill Hice

“And even if you escape, you’ll come home late, all shipmates lost, and come a broken man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“For it is always the first day for a mother who has lost her child. That grief never grows old. The mourning weeds may wear out and fade; the heart stays black.”
― Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris

“Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence