For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.