Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.