“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”

“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“The color of truth is gray.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”