To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

To find beauty all around you, fill yourself with self-love.

Your actions are reflections of your thoughts. What are you thinking?

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride. And the end is not the end.