She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Change your thoughts... charge your life.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.