Quotes

One cannot apply logic as an absolute where human beings are concerned.

I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.”

Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

“Too many of us,” she said, “take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn’t you say?”

The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp.

“They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.

Odd, how they survived because of others’ misfortune. Maybe that was part of what made the townsfolk resent them.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

I cannot live in the past. It is foolishness to do so.

I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back, the passage went. He stumbled beneath the weight, shirtless under the sun, wearing only a loincloth. He tottered down a busy thoroughfare. People made way for him...

“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing lin...

when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

It was better not to resist. This was his lot, and he was resigned to it. There was a certain power in that, a freedom. The freedom of not having to care.

In Vorin belief, one’s Calling—the task to which one dedicated one’s life—was of vital importance. Choosing a good profession and working hard at it was the best way to ensure good placement in the afterlife.