Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Victory is always bittersweet.

The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

There is magic in all life.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

How much I'd always envied the tight life of voles. The hidey hole was happiness.

It was more than the war that changed me - Corin

The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Mutually assured destruction.

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.