Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.