It isn’t what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It’s what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man – what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.
To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water is more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water is of little worth and great trouble.
I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul.
Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
Wizard’s Third Rule: Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.
History is rarely made by reasonable men.
Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.
I’d rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.
Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don’t think for themselves; they only think about themselves.
In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.
Grrratch luuug Raaaach aaarg.
Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.
The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less.
But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.