Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.