Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?''The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.

Hope against hope, is the grace of faith.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.