Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.