Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

Joblessness gives you liberty

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Nora Roberts is cool.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.