A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

Wars are won in the will.

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

The historian amputates reality.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.