It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.