Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

The path is revealed in the treading.

Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

reading is the soul's salvation

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the joys and pains of family have shaped your lives.

His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.