To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

How beautiful it will be if your heart grows only the flowers of love and kindness.

I grew up a dreamer, lonely, one foot on the earth, the other on the moon.

The actions of man’s thoughts are similar to the action of a magnet.

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

Good photos have come when I least controlled the situation.

Happiness requires problems

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?