Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself