The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Start before you’re ready.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.