I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

Be forever young in the flesh, it makes the mind flash light low, until the spotlight follows your shadow.

I think loneliness is much better than companionship of a selfish.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.