“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”

“but heavens! how that man could talk! He electrified large meetings. He had faith—don't you see?—he had the faith. He could get himself to believe anything—anything. He would have been a splendid “leader of an extreme party.' 'What party?' I asked. 'Any party,' answered the other. 'He was an—an—extremist.”

“I've never doubted that you should be our leader. I've always believed that, ever since Firestar took you to the Skyrock to receive your nine lives. I challenged you, yes, so I could be sure of your conviction that you were doing the right thing. What SkyClan needs more than anything else is a leader who has faith in herself. Because only then could other cats have faith in her, too.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

“Don't blindly follow any leader.”

“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”