If there is one thing I have learned, it is that compassion is smarter than hatred, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if one goes through the world with a friendly gaze, one makes good friends.
He is my dearest friend and the cruelest of my rivals, my confidant and the one who betrays me, the one who supports me and the one I depend on; and most terrifying of all: he is my equal.