Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden’s mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.

It can't be taught to all, but people who deliver exceptional work, merely by relaying their passion through what they say and do in the workplace, are priceless.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.