Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes. - Robert Jordan

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne], and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

There are things worth fighting for.