“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”

“A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”

“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”

“Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.”

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

“Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”