Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

To understand the value and priorities of the kingdom is to seek

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

Mental energy from within keeps me higher, Than anything rolled and set on fire

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.