We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

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.

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

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.

Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

A great social reformer.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.