Happy Birthday Terry Brooks!

Who would you be but who you are?

Man kämpfte ums Überleben, und im Gehirn eines Wesens, das um sein Leben kämpft, hat die Vernunft keinen Platz.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Binsenweisheiten sind die nutzlosen Kinder von Einsichten, die zu spät dran sind.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

What you write chooses you.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.