History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

What is life if not laughter and love, caring and compassion, fresh bread and crisp radishes?

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.