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

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

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.

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.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.

I've had an amazing ride. I've been blessed beyond things that I could never have imagined.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.