In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.