Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done… — Brandon Sanderson

“When has any tyrant ever said to himself, ‘This is enough’?”

Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing.

“Funny, isn’t it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren’t many stories about the kids who say, ‘Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I’m glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.’”