Victory belong to the most persevering.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.

... we are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.