You try to give away what you want yourself.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.