These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. I….

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself..

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself..

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, ….

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men..

I don't really take myself very seriously..

The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it..

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am..

How can you hide from what never goes away?.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition..

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

Good wares make good markets..

Nature is always hinting at us..

Only the bold get to the top..

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way….

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fictio….

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and ….