If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be learned, more than she would have believed when she was a prentice-priestess or the pupil of a mage.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.