“We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.”

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?

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

What science cannot understand, it dismisses.

That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.

Water is the life – giver and the death-bringer.

No man is ever just one thing.

We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.

He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.

When things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh.

Life is not easy for any for us.

Loneliness is the best supporter.

The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don’t work, and you’ve just got to just say: Let’s grind this baby to a halt.