A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

for a purpose without reason

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

Count every moment of existence as a miracle.

A Twinkle In The Eye, Is an Angels Reflective Smile

My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.