There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?

Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

Sane is boring.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.