All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.
Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. . . . I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.