A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.

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.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Your true home is in the here and the now.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said "her brothers got a moustache!"

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.