I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it

My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations.

Before fighting for truth, find the truth.

Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds.""I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body.

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.