I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

Protect your finest hours for your greatest work. Bring on your craft and lift us with you.

And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Energy independence is very important to me.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.