Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.

Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.

Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

History doesn't remember gardens.…You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers.

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, ” Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, ” Thenoclon said.

Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday.

All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Love. People threw that word around like carzy.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.