there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster