When they can't steal your success, they tarnish your character but at the end, they surrender to your strength.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

Diligence without intelligence is tragedy, not success.

From the day I began traveling, I understood that truths were lies and lies were truths.

Traveling is as subtle as an early morning reverence.

Respect is free. Keep some for you and give some to others.

Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Being your authentic self exudes a quiet confidence.

Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

The new European Soviet.

How much love did you put into what you did?

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.