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

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.

Pray for victory, plan for disaster.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

To love can mean 'to love oneself, ' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

I’m a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me.

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray.