And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

A feather when viewed separately may seem like only a feather, But when seen through the eyes of truth it is a sacred instrument that lifts a bird in flight.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

Sustainable energy + food security + healthy environment = full employment + better future.

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.