Timothy Zahn Quotes

One may need to undergo several regimens of training and sample several different professions before determining where one’s strongest talents lie. This is the driving force behind many life-path alte...

Luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new

Besides, it is often wise to conceal one’s full capabilities from potential enemies.

But Mount Tantiss was gone, destroyed by agents of the New Republic and C'baoth's own madness and treason. And Grand Admiral Thrawn was dead.And the Empire was dying.

Courage wasn’t a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worr...

Jedi Skywalker; remember it well. For if you allow your justice to be forgotten, you will be forced to repeat the same lessons again and again. He held Luke’s gaze

Isn’t that what you said Yoda told you before you died?

Wine, and

She also noted

Hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek higher rank?’ It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. ‘Because...

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn’t mean deliberately asking for trouble.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented.

Leadership is a role and a task that should never be aspired to lightly. Neither should loyalty be given without reason.

It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.

But she wasn't a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina this time, or a come-up flector for a swoop gang on Caprioril, or even a hyperdrive mechanic stuck in the backwater of the Ison Corridor. She was se...

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

But what of friends? There is no accepted answer, perhaps because true friendship is so exceedingly rare. But I have formulated my own. A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A...