“for a purpose without reason”

“One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust ones fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?”

“A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.”

“A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistak...”

“He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.”

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still t...”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”