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.

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.

Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.