The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

Perhaps it is the setting

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.