Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.