There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

Football coaches don't have real problems.

I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.

I don't think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.