Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.