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.

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

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

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.

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.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.