Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness

With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.