The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Every great brand is like a great story.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

I love both my parents dearly.

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.