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- Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
- Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
- Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
- Wally Lamb
- As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
- Rodney Yee
- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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