“Count not what is lost, but what is left.”

“Spread the happy, not the cranky.”

“Revenge is as the tigers spring,Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as realTorture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.”

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

“Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.”

“The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.”

“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.”