The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

I don't know if I don't believe in monogamy. I think I do believe in it depending on the person or situation or something.

If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.