Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

Excuse me, " she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

Fear, left unchecked, can spread like a virus.

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

Blessed are you who forgive.You will forever be happy.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.