Turmoil accompanies every great change.

A wise man would ignore the future and drink and carouse while he still has an opportunity to enjoy this world.

Who you are is not fixed for all eternity. A man could forge himself anew if he so wanted.

Friends are fickle, but family is forever.

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have. ... And love, also greed and jealousy and every other obsessive urge the sentient races are susceptible to.

It is not my habit to hand out secrets like candied nuts on winter solstice. Especially not when they belong to others.

'... For me a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side that pains me every time I move until I can pluck it out.' ... '... if that is so, you must spend every waking hour in mortal agony, for life is full of unanswerable questions.'

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

War is a merchant's delight.

It does not good, then, to dwell upon past wrongs. If we cannot overlook what each of our races has done, there will never be peace between humans and the Urgralgra.

A secret shared is no secret at all.

Anger is a poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.