“It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.”

“If you don't know that friendship implies give and take, then you're not worthy to be called my friend.”

“Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.”

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“In the face of all this those who continue to assert, ‘Shariah has safeguarded the rights of women like no other system of law has,’ do so only because of their confidence that no one but them has read the texts of shariah.”

“If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.”

“Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing—in addition to caring for man’s well-being—they were providing rights for themselves.”

“Friend is a very small word,
A little sound we make,
For one who is true, one who will do,
Great deeds for friendship's sake.”

“No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.”

“Tradition takes time to change. But it changes, all right. All that I have to do is to keep trying.”