You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.