Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

But a living is not a life.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?