You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

The first love is the difficult love.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.