Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books

I have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

I would rather create a precedent than find one.