He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

Moonlight and high wind.Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words, ' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.