When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Life is only a misery, without music.

We are beautiful souls with beautiful spirits.

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.