‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

If you control the children, you control the future.

It's not what happens to you but your response to it that will either make you better or bitter.

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.