Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.