I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.

I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

I am not a professional politician.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.