He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.

They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.

What about the future?""We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.