Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.