I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

Things come suitable to the time.

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.