The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

It's not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.