"Energy. It permeates every living and non-living thing. Without it, the world would cease to exist." ~ Vincent VonStolburg ~

"One may never know how long their candle of life's wick is. What they can know, is how well it burns." ~ A.K. Lovell ~

"And after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but a the truth in masquerade." ~ George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron~

"He who angers you conquers you."
~ Elizabeth Kenny ~

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
~ Francis Bacon ~

"We must die to one life, before we can enter another."
~ Anatole France ~

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears."
~David Sarnoff ~

"The defense of others is far more noble than the defense of oneself."
~ A. K. Lovell ~

"Awareness of one's surroundings has saved many a man in war. Imagine what it may do in a time of peace."
~ A.K. Lovell ~

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
~ Henrik Tikkanen ~

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
~ Edvard Munch ~

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." ~ William Penn ~

"Nature does nothing uselessly."
~ Aristotle ~

"We shall recognize the end of times when the only true innocents left are the ones who lay snug in their tombs." ~Unknown

"The first casualty of war is innocence."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

"Choose to be not a product of your environment, nor of your experience, but a product of what your heart tells you the world can be in its finest hour." ~ A.K. Lovell ~

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." ~ Joseph Stalin ~

"What measures will one take to protect the ones they love when there is nowhere to run?" ~ Question of the Ages ~

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely changed from one form to another." ~ First Law of Thermodynamics ~

"No one is truly evil. They simply see things from a different point of view." ~ A.K. Lovell ~

"Some believe that the benefit of death, is that it is possible to see farther on the other side." ~ A.K. Lovell ~

"The unwritten law of triage is knowing when nothing else can be done, and actually accepting that." ~ A.K. Lovell ~

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

"Amidst hell there is always light, it is just a matter of finding it."
~ Unknown ~

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." ~ Samuel Smiles

"Dangerous is wrath concealed." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."
~ William Shakespeare ~

"My respect is earned, not given."
~ Saying of the Ages ~

"We often give our enemies the means of our destruction."
~ Aesop ~ The Eagle and the Arrow ~

"The worst parts of tragedy are the marks left on the survivors, however well hidden they may be."
~ A. K. Lovell ~