It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.