A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.