People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
You must learn to see, what you are looking at
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.