Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence

Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally.
I don't budge.
She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?"
I still can't look up. But I nod.
"It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing.
But it's everything.

Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt