“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.”

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”

“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”

“At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.”

“It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.”

“The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.”

“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities”

“In the desert, the only god is a well.”

“I know there is only oneGovernorOfDeities.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”