I was just wondering why you're here.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

If you make peace without defense power, then you should be really ready to be ruled.

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.

Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.

Change is the law of life.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.