Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

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.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.