Christ, It's So Good To Be Alive.

To Think Bad Thoughts Is Really The Easiest Thing In The World. If You Leave Your Mind To Itself It Will Spiral Down Into Ever Increasing Unhappiness. To Think Good Thoughts, However, Requires Effort. This Is One Of The Things That Discipline And Training Is All About.

God Gives Us Intelligence To Uncover The Wonders Of Nature. Without The Gift, Nothing Is Possible.

Blackthorne, Beside The Gates, Was Still Turmoiled By His Boundless Joy At Her Reprieve And He Remembered How His Own Will Had Been Stretched That Night Of His Near-seppuku, When He Had Had To Get Up As A Man And Walk Home As A Man Unsupported, And Became Samurai. And He Watched Her, Despising The Need For This Courage, Yet Understanding It, Even Honoring It.

Christ, It's So Good To Be Alive.

Isn't It Only Laughter We Can Stay Human?