Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

A church should be judged not on its seating capacity, but on its sending capacity.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never i…

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.