Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.