Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.