In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.

There is no room for emotion in business.

Man is the only predator who hunts his own.

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.

I was told there would be no math

A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.