May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.