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..

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….

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

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….

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable..

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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..

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….

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….

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

And the first king was a lucky soldier..

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal..