"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."