Ursula K. Le Guin

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

They that deny a God destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.