The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Now if you gentlemen, ” she looked at Briec, “and whateveryou are, will excuse me.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Frugality is a handsome income.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. “I’m sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn’t get out without hurting someone.

The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.