To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.

The best way never to fall is ever to fear.