Phil

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.”
― Robin Hobb, The Golden Fool

“He who whets his steel, whets his courage.”
― Steven Pressfield