My dear, treacherous mother, ” he breathed. “What have you done?

I will stand beside you through all of this, ' she said when she could finally speak. “And welcome you home with gladness when it’s over, and you return triumphant.

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

She sighed. “I can’t help it. I worry for you when you lead these patrols. I don’t sleep until you return."His features softened. “Then you don’t dream of me when I’m gone,

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Other peoples' success represents the possibility of what you can do.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

A king of infinite space