Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.