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.

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

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

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.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.