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.

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.

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.

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.

Never let your fears hold you back. Fears are not easily overcome but when you take the time to be brave it is worth the struggle.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Chase your dreams and don't find shortcuts...!!!

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

The Nugent family is a solid asset. What works for us would work for all humankind.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.