Pray for victory, plan for disaster.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

- Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other…- I'll decide what's a sin.

A man can never have too many friends.

Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.

When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory.

Be careful who you allow into your bed, and more importantly your heart.

Regretfully, he remained an alluring mystery, with fascinating lines and details she could not help but seek to examine further and memorize.

I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.