Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

My name is Alex Riley and I've been signed to a personal services contract for The Miz.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

I've shown people Richard Pryor who've never seen him, and most of them don't like him.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.