Consistency is the defense of a small mind

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

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

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.