“Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.”

“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”

“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”

“Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?""What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.”

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”

“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”