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.

Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Think of the solution, not the problem

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.