What men do matters more than what they know.

- John Christopher

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

- John Christopher

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

- John Christopher

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

- John Christopher

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

- John Christopher

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

- John Christopher

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that ca…

- John Christopher

Some people are oil and water.

- John Christopher

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

- John Christopher