I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Possibility is not a luxury

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

With her jaws and talons, Saphira tore through an Urgal.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .