"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love?
What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile?
Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love.
That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

"Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall.
And a very small man can cast a very large shadow."

"Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."

"It will get worse, but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again.
Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine.
But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth."

"The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one,
but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate."

"The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived.
In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone."

"People like to invent monsters and monstrosities.
Then they seem less monstrous themselves."

"Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference.
The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred.
If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all."