David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk

I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.