You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

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

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf