What exactly does a friend do?

A true conversion is always only between a man and God.

Belief is not weakness. Faith is the greatest strength we can have.

Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing

I cannot afford to lose you, too""You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you

There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

What would you sacrifice for power?

Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.

I am yours, ” she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.