Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Laughter is poison to fear.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

Love is the common currency of the poor.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done.