Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.