Lance Conrad

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

“People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.”

“Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.”

“Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.”

“If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.”

“I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.”

“For the entire history of humanity, we have stared into fires, hypnotized by the twitch and flow of the blues and yellows. We see the stars of alien skies reflected in the coals and divine messages in the dance of the flames. Fire is magic.”

“All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.”

“Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.”

“Man is slow because he hesitates”

“There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.”

“The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.”

“War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.”

“Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.”

“Stories shape the world.”

“The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.”

“Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.”

“I do respect clever.”

“Faith is courage.”

“To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.”