Love does not always end well.

I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursting with the same longing to save what remained of all we loved.

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.

Challenges are the core of life’s nuclear reactor, the uranium rods are your decisions and the energy generated is your success

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

Never forget to remind yourself each and every day, that your presence on earth is very important, and will forever matter.

There is no answer for life, creation, or mankind. We make the answer.

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.