He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Victory is always bittersweet.

The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.

Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

There is magic in all life.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

To find the books end, cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle.Until then, prepare yourselffor the coming battle. . .AND TRUST NO ONE.

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

You can only learn when you teach.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.