The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Age and illness made one a dualist

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

As a writer, you are free.