“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”

“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”

“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”

“My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.”

“I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”

“There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.”

“I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.”