His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.

Having delivered the expected daily miracle, Floote stood in his usual stance and warily watched the Templars work.

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.

Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.