“And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.”

“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”

“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”

“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.”

“Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.”

“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”

“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”