Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

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

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

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.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.