I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

Don't try to fit into another person's mold, be bold and beautiful in your own shape and form.

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.