While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Honor is the greatest poet.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.