Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

Stung again by this queen bee of the Loren clan, Marissa shook it off and retorted, “See, that’s just it. I don’t always love Jack Storm. But with all my heart I love Jack Loren.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.