It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."- Valek to Yelena

Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

The uniform enhanced his athletic body, and my thoughts drifted to how magnificent he would look with his uniform puddled around his feet.

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart.

I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.