“He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynef...”

“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for man...”

“He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself...”

“Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”

“Stagnation is self-abdication.”

“One of mankinds greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.”

“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.”