Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

If you walked away from atoxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-endlow vibrationalrelationship or friendship — you won.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

If you are a lighthouse, you cannot hide yourself; if you hide yourself, you cannot be a lighthouse!

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!