I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.

Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe, ” Perrotte said.

You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.

Forgiveness is not death. It is life.

Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

I know it's the belief that women should never show daring in front of men. Never be bold when men hesitate. I know flight is not the answer

Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Roasted chicken, boiled chicken, smoked chicken, fried chicken, I love them all!

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.