There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...