Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.