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

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.

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.

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.

People--stupid when they lived

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Let's say 'Yes' to life and 'No' to death.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.