“These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.”

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

“Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people.”

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow managed to turn to their own good in the end; using the fire to burn away everything in them that could possibly decay, everything mortal. So that what remains finally are only their cast-iron hearts, the few muscles and bones tempered to the consistency of steel needed to move them about, the black skin annealed long ago by the sun's blaze and thus impervious to all other fires; and hidden deep within, out of harm's way, the indestructible will: old people who have the essentials to go on forever.”