All men are brothers in the night.

Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.

Embrace the pain, Sharum.

To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.

Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.

My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.” “Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away, ” Abban replied.

Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

I have rare moments of competence.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?