The Parry Is Wrong." - Drizzt Do'urden

Luck?" Drizzt Replied. "perhaps. But More Often, I Dare To Say, Luck Is Simply The Advantage A True Warrior Gains In Excuting The Correct Course Of Action.

There Is A Wide World Out There, Full Of Pain, But Filled With Joy As Well. The Former Keeps You On The Path Of Growth And The Latter Makes The Journey Tolerable.

You View The Gods As Entities Without," Montolio Tried To Explain. "you See Them As Physical Beings Trying To Control Our Actions For Their Own Ends, And Thus You, In Your Stubborn Independance, Reject Them. The Gods Are Within, I Say, Whether One Has Named His Own Or Not. You Have Followed Mielikki All Your Life, Drizzt. You Merely Never Had A Name To Put On Your Heart.

Nostalgia Is A Necessary Thing, I Believe, And A Way For All Of Us To Find Peace In That Which We Have Accomplished, Or Even Failed To Accomplish. At The Same Time, If Nostalgia Precipitates Actions To Return To That Fabled, Rosy-painted Time, Particularly In One Who Believes His Life To Be A Failure, Then It Is An Empty Thing, Doomed To Produce Nothing But Frustration And An Even Greater Sense Of Failure.

Emotion Clouds The Rational, And Many Perspectives Guide The Full Reality. To View Current Events As A Historian Is To Account For All Perspectives, Even Those Of Your Enemy. It Is To Know The Past And To Use Such Relevant History As A Template For Expectations. It Is, Most Of All, To Force Reason Ahead Of Instinct, To Refuse To Demonize That Which You Hate, And To, Most Of All, Accept Your Own Fallibility.