Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

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