Mark Lawrence: "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

Your scars are proof that you were stronger than whatever tried to break you.

Half-bloods learn fast: the world is not fair, but you fight anyway.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.