You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

It takes only a bit of tragedy to destroy insta-love.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

I have hope. I have no expectations.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.