The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

We ought to encourage, build and strengthen one another.

I needed a new mystery.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.