Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.

Embrace the pain, Sharum.

To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.

Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.

All men are brothers in the night.

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.

My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.” “Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away, ” Abban replied.

Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

I have rare moments of competence.

We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to Heaven You'll find no policemen there.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.