Aptitude without Attitude is Blind

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.