“He had to grow his own NCOs.”

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”

“You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.”

“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”

“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.”

“I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.”

“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”

“ The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expresse...”