If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

Success is determined by how little time you have to worry whether others are criticizing you, while being too focused to address them if they are.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.

In the particular lies the universal.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.