No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

The brain is to mind as the eye is to sight.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.