Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.

No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.