“The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.”

“We all are weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Some times that weakness is a strength in dusguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Some times it is both. A wise man seeks to find a lesson from it. A fool lets it control and destroy him.And sometimes the wise man is the fool.”

“There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.”

“Sometimes lessons take time to learn.”

“It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.”

“The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.”

“He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of.”