

“The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.”
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“The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet

“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. —The Creation of Éa”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet

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