“The day we stop learning is the day we die.”

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

What science cannot understand, it dismisses.

That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.

Water is the life – giver and the death-bringer.

No man is ever just one thing.

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.

He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.

Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

I can’t die but once.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.

When you die, you die. You don’t think which is the better way to die.