Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Sometimes life isn’t what we want, it’s what we get.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

You need to call on your best and strongest self.

Forget it, ” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.