I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

The path is revealed in the treading.

Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

No matter how they abuse you toleration is how you abuse yourself.

Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.