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For Dick, the Peace Corps, more than any other program of the Kennedy years, represented the essence of the New Frontier.

It takes a certain mindset to exist within two parallel spheres.

Johan, in that Dutch way, had been great at languages. English, Spanish, French, German, a bit of Portuguese.... People say that love is rare. I am not so sure. What is rare is something even more desirable. Understanding.

I knew that I did not want to be alone for the rest of my life. But wanting and having were two very different things.

I wish I could skip to the finish without having to ride through Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle again in those Hard Times.

'One man got away, but what about all the dead?' Blackthorne cried out, enraged.

Every tire taking a beating, every tooth in my jaw rattling, we crept along. On my side was the track going down the middle, and I tried not to think what would happen if a train came along. On the Old Man's side was water, water, and more water, the jutting trestles the only thing between us and a free fall of giraffe, truck, and body parts to a muddy Mississippi splashdown.

[Carter] was the president who brought Ruth to Washington as a federal judge. And Carter's presidency and politics would have a direct effect on my personal life, although I didn't know it then either.

And then, in the lonely silence, Toranaga began to smile. And he tucked up his kimono and began to dance. It was a hornpipe.

Ruth's early years were very different from mine. She grew up in quiet.

As each mile got smoother, though, I started feeling something new--I wasn't quite sure, seeing as I'd never felt it before, but I think I was feeling lucky.

In the darkest part of the night the assassin came over the wall into the garden.

She forced a smile wishing she could trust him. But she didn't think she knew how.

Rebecca's eyes find a safe spot on the wall behind Obadiah Wood, and she stares at it. Her voice slips into a monotone, devoid of all shock, all pain. She sounds like she is in another room, in another country, as she continues.

But when Gerald was really left alone, he could not bear it. One day passed by and another. And all the time he was like a man hung in chains over the edge of an abyss.

And there were only three things left, that would rouse him, make him live.

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all....But other times life changes in an instant, with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck, with glorious or tragic consequences.

Apu: If I didn't go, then I think a dark force out of the past would fly across the world and probably destroy us all.

Sometimes [Ursula] had periods of tight horror, when it seemed to her that her life would pass away, and be gone, without having been more than this. But she never really accepted it. Her spirit was active, her life like a shoot that is growing steadily, but which has not yet come above ground.

The first time he met my mother he said, "You must have been a beautiful young woman but you are old and wrinkly now."...This was his first sentence after Hello? I bridled and opened my mouth to scold, but my mother put a hand on my arm and shook her head, kindly. "Yes," she replied. "I see that you are a man who tells the truth."

Nobody had common sense anymore. Hell, half of getting through life properly was having common sense and an iota of determination. It was a wonder that people without a thimbleful of either ever managed. Then again, there was such a thing as having too much of both. That had been one of her problems.

Stella pulled the covers over hr head and pretended to be dead, a ritual she'd been practicing since the early years of her childhood. Farm life had been hard.

Prayer: Lord, teach me when to be still and when to fight; and when I am to fight, may I fight boldly, fairly, and with a forgiving heart. Amen.

For him there were no more reprieves and his hope had run out weeks before.