The result justifies the deed.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.