Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.