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“in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. I see no reason to jeopardize that success.”
that hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.
“Sometimes you don’t know the most important things,” Tavi said. “You believe them.”
“Any man with a brain in his head looks for three things in anyone he’ll follow: will, brains, and a heart.”
All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.
