Better a live dog than a dead lion.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Be the light and source of inspiration that others see

nature can offer you the biggest gifts only if you are ready to accept.

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world’s lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.

O Lord, only you can satisfy my soul.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.