Robert Jordan, The Wheel Of Time

A man without trust is a man without life.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.