When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

All good things pass away.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

He’s more myself than I am

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.