Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

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?

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.