“Hope?” She eyed Cassian dubiously. “Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?” Cassian might as well have shrugged. “Rebellions are built on hope,” he said”

“When Faith dawn, fear fades.”

“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.”

“Don’t ever get discouraged, your effort may not be acknowledged but trust me it’s noticed.”

“…There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest…”

“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry night, full of ecstasy in the middle of the universal radiance of creation, he could not perhaps have said himself what was happening in his spirit; he felt something soar up out of him and something fly down into him. Mysterious exchanges between the bottomless well of the soul and the bottomless well of the universe!”

“What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?”

“And you are going to be to the light of our kingdom. No one is going to hurt you.”

“Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don’t give way.”

“Faith is a flammable fire.”

“Faith is full force.”

“But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.”

“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.”

“When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.”

“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.”