Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Love was like a toothache.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Every act is an expression of one's self.

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

Money isn't everything, Mortimer.

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.