When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

The busy have no time for tears.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.