Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority..

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space….

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind….

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a ba….

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food..

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine..

Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than t….

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the fl….

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do..

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted..

Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead..

We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broa….

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own..

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remembe….

God, I love the "fine morality" of the wealthy and powerful. You'll spill tears over your own, in a heartbeat. And then never even look twice at peop….

Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the informa….

It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V ….