The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.
A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.