“If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised”

“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”

“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”

“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”

“People believe what they are told.”

“Those that yield are not always weak”

“A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?”

“To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it”

“That which yields is not always weak.”

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”

“After you, it's all cheap tequila.”