Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted, ' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

Men are minded to conjure the most extraordinary tales about women who would question their place in the world.

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

I don't read Science Fiction.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

You need to have a life outside your career.