I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

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.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.