We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Count the deed, not the thought.

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

I loved all the world's mythologies.