Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.