Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked