If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

No man or woman can live another's fate