The world is no nursery.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk) And now? (Taryn) Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)

I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Women are always beautiful.

Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.