When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.