Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.

Hardships make or break people.

Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.