Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Magic is a two-edged sword. You must be prepared to be cut by it.”

“For the only safe harbor in this life is truth.”

“There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.”

“Even in the scabbard, a sword is a sword, and implies a use.”

“Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb for a rotting corpse?”

“It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.”

“An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself.”

“The priests of the different religions have begun to fragment the one God into many, and to dogmatize about His personality.”

“Love is not the absence of logic, but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.”

“Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.”

“There are women who are not beautiful, but only interesting.”

“And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.”

“And what is a king without a queen? A king is a king, but a queen is a power.”

“It is not a woman’s lot to suffer in silence.”

“Freedom is not a gift, but a trust.”

“No man or woman is another's master, but each is a warden of the other's soul.”

“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he is too old to go anywhere.”

“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”

“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”

“There is no magic when one no longer believes.”