“You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...”

“I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty - I can do that if I want, too...”

“So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.”

“When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusi...”

“She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.”

“Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'- Frankie Landau-Banks”

“The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.”

“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Relig...”

“A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth”

“As long as, Woman presents herself weak, She is master of everything.”

“Mood has to be controlled.Otherwise, it's your master.”

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense t...”

“Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”

“Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.”