“Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.”

“Embrace the pain, Sharum.”

“To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.”

“Cant trust no one else to do what you wont do for yourself.”

“Why are you doing this? Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mothers, but every word clear. My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.Nor would mine, but we are not our ...”

“He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.”

“One in AllAll in One--If only this is realized,No more worry about your not being perfect (175)”

“To live in peace is to follow peace with all men”

“If you believe all those who are urging you to give up are wrong, prove them wrong!”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.”

“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," ...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”