Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

Love the ones you love like there's no tomorrow. Literally.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

If the Church is indeed the Bride of Christ, then a Christian who loves hating other Christians is like a wife who hates loving her family.