You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.