But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

...To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.