“Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.”

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

I’m an early bird and I’m a night owl so I’m wise and I have worms.

I’m not a magician. I’am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

We only ever regret the things we have not done.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

The truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

I… Declare…. Bankruptcy!

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

He who retreats lives longer.

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.

At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

Your dark times will show you who can never be your light.

I knew I held strength when in the darkest, coldest corner of my mind I managed to make flowers grow.