My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.