“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.”

“The most important acts of a civilization, be they atrocities against life or acts of compassion beyond understanding, are always done in the name of the greater good. And no one who acts in the name of the greater good believes they are wrong. That is why right and wrong are so often indistinguishable.”

“Names were important. You carried your name like a brand. You never lied about it, for fear of angering the god under which you were born.”

“You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.”

“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.”

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”