Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

I would rather write 10, 000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

I always want to give the victim a voice.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.