There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

You cannot clap with one hand alone.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.