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You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow fo...more

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Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the coloniz...more

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He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impossible riddles. He may be the greatest hero of all...more

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There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)