Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be?

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.("The Wide Net")

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.