To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill.

A man who refuses a duty ... is not punished ... but forsaken. And he will never know love or honor or happiness again.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

If you don't have a margin for error, error kills you.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks ... rulers have had the various pantheons carrying water for them since the first con man met the first sucker, and priestcraft was born. That was long enough ago that they were probably both walking on their knuckles.

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

A sin is wrong not because it makes you feel bad--though it should--but because it is wrong.

God has given you these desires ... He gives us carnal love for a purpose, for mutual delight, to produce children, and the sanctification of the soul. Cast yourself headlong on God's love, begging His grace to help you in the perfection of the nature He gave you. To love another so deeply that we seek union with the beloved, by that to bring an immortal soul into this world and care for and shape it ... that is to imitate God Himself in His splendor!

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

Prayer is more powerful than armies, in the end.