Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

First thoughts are not always the best.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.