“This is the moment when moderation brings salvation while lawlessness leads to death.”— Belisarius, amazon.com
“[Social science] has contributed scarcely anything to our understanding of social phenomenon.”— F. A. Hayek, amazon.com
“It is too easy to call the perpetrator of a violent act a monster. It's by examining our shared humanity that we can learn about ourselves, about them and about protecting ourselves.”— Gavin De Becker, amazon.com
“So anyhow I began my new then when I stepped out of my life routine worn bare and deep as a cowpath across a meadow, climbed out of my rut, stopped listening to the news and Mary Tyler Moore. And strangely stopped drinking or smoking. The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't ne…”— Walker Percy, amazon.com
“It says a lot for [Napoleon's] ebullient self confidence, or maybe for his belief in his destiny; that having failed at one uncongenial end of Europe, he was ready to risk a second front at the other end, which was even less hospital to his methods.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“Napoleon described his mind and work life as a series of drawers. Open one, shut the other.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“His fellow workmen break down and sink under the burden imposed on them and he supports them without feeling the weight.”— Paul Johnson, amazon.com
“On heavy armor: It will be easier to defend them in battle than it will be to strip away their armor once they are dead.”— Lucullus, amazon.com
“...Indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.”— Budd Schulberg, amazon.com
“I knew the trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it, and not enough guts to stand up to it.”— Budd Schulberg, amazon.com
“A suicide is not a simple death, bringing peace with it. It haunts; it asks a question.”— May Sarton, amazon.com
“David Stern's innate wisdom that in the long run if you did the right thing and did not try to take credit for too much of what you did, the people would give you not only the right amount of credit, but perhaps even more.”— David Halberstam, amazon.com