I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

I was more worried about what other people would think rather than, you know, me. But you have got to do what is right for yourself and what you feel comfortable with.