“One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.”

“There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at it.”

“Your people understand the forest: how the animals behave, where to find them, and so on. I want something similarbut instead of the forest as a whole, I want to understand dragons. They are not on...”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”