You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.

Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.

If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.

I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!

notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination, growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil

Life will be felt so "flat" without passion .

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Words without deeds are worthless.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.