a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Be an example of small acts of kindness

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.