Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels, " said Roy and cackled happily.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.