Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

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

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

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