Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.

Men are scumbags until they prove they're women.

Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.