Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

My face is my career.

No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat