When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Honor is what you know about yourself.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.