The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

Kiss me like you want to live.—Lachlain.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

The artist works by locating the world in himself

My weekends are extremely precious.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.