Never name the well from which you will not drink.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.