The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

I’m glad I went to prison, " Grant rasped in Sophie’s ear, so quietly only she could hear. "Because then I found you.

I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

New York is a fantastic city.

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.