Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

Karate-Do is a lifetime study

Your character is your fate.

No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.