That is what marks out a warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment.

I am not a body with a soul, I am a soul that has a visible part called the body.

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

It's because I dream of being accepted and respected, though I don't owe anything to anyone. Why do I need that? I waste my time on worries, regrets, and darkness - a darkness that only enslaves me, chaining me to a rock where I'm served up as food for birds of prey, a rock that I can no longer leave.

Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.