Nothing that's really worthwhile should be easy, Belgarion. If it's easy, we don't value it.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

Weirdly, I'm not a horror fan, but those kind of horror leanings are something that are very easy for me to get into.

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

You are not going to be what you decide to be; you are going to be what you decide to be around.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.