“There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.”

“There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.”

“There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.”

“Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer your muscles stronger and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.”

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”

“To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?”

“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”

“What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.”

“It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.”

“About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

“As a child in Atuan, Tenar had learned how to learn. There seemed always to be a great deal to be learned, more than she would have believed when she was a prentice-priestess or the pupil of a mage.”