the best committee's a committee of one!

does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

The lesser evil is also evil.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

I remember making up songs in my head.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.