There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.

The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.

And does he like blondes, as well?'Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola.

If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.

The church is strong when she lives by divine understanding.

A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.