Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent.

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.

You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”“Does that bother you?”“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about it?

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.