We can never fill the void of those who perished but we pledge to honor them by living as they would have wished with lives full of purpose with hearts full of love and with hope for a better tomorrow.
Fellow citizens, Lincoln said. We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The surrender of the main army of the Confederacy gives hope of a righteous and speedy peace.
And that's also about where we've got to in our society because we see, I did a documentary series because I was so, I was so riven by playing Logan for so long.
Up and down he paced, consumed with anger and frustration, grinding his teeth and clenching his fists, casting angry looks out at the empty, star-strewn sky every time he passed the window.
Whatever the work is, even if it's really grim, artists get us to examine the insides of people in a way that isn't filled with disgust, that leads us to a deeper understanding.
The reward is to end up soft and humble, empty and in awe, knowing that of all the magnificence we have beheld from cradle to grave, the most eye-popping was interpersonal.
She felt uneasy, seized with fear, not for herself, but for her parents. She left her brother behind, and dashed down the slope of the hill toward the flames.
She was suffused with a tenderness for her husband and an impotent rage against the man for involving him in a situation so alien and so distasteful to him.
Scar was a fool and a bitter lion, content to slink about stirring discontent among the young lions and mocking and disrespecting his brother at every turn.