Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable..

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awf….

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even….

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people..

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit..

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal..

And the first king was a lucky soldier..

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money..

The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of….

Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self-res….

A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will….

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers..

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot..

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier..

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind..

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill..

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give..

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you..