Sensual pleasures are, or should be, the culmination of physical desires combined with an intellectual and emotional decision, a giving of oneself, body and spirit, in a bond of trust and respect.

All of his life had been filled with crashing ends to promising beginnings.

In the heart, there is no sting greater than watching the struggles of one you love, knowing that only through such strife will that person grow and recognize the potential of his or her existence.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

If we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed.

I don’t like the sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know that when I die, that which is important will live on.

Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?

How ironic it is that our instincts often run exactly opposite from what we truly desire for those we love.

That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving.

He hates me because my way of life shows his to be an empty lie,

I consider every person an enemy until he has proven himself differently, and I find that in knowing my enemies, I can prepare against anything they might send against me.

This is the way of the world, but is is not the only way.

Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair?

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?

Are we then creatures of action? Do we say that we desire those accepted cliches of comfort when, in fact, it is the challenge and the adventure that truly give us life?

In the dim light of Twinkle’s glow, their skin colors lost in a common gray, they seemed alike, brethren come from the same mold. Entreri approved of that perception, but Drizzt surely did not.

Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.

Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals?

My writing is my internal dialogue—

Those who aspire to less accomplish less. There can be no doubt. It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

The world is a dark place,” Kipper replied. “But when friends join hands, it lightens.

For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success.

The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma.

When I die … may there be friends who will grieve for me, who will carry our shared joys and pains, who will carry my memory.

Pride invites you to soar to heights of personal triumph, but the wind is stronger at those heights and the footing, tentative. Farther, then, is the fall.

I don’t desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger.

When all is a facade, wound within webs of deception, the truth is what you make of it.

It is difficult to realize that you cannot win every battle for every friend.

...and the third died in his bunk of natural causes — for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Without satisfaction, he will find no contentment, and without contentment, he will find no joy.

When you live with death so close, you come to appreciate life all the more.

I will never forget that you came for me, Drizzt Do’Urden,” Entreri called after him, and for some reason he didn’t quite yet understand, those words filled Drizzt’s heart.

Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?