Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Past glories are poor feeding.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.

Straight to the top, rooftop glows. With a hand full of girls and they all so foreign. Brain so poisoned, rainbows flowing.

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?