We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

What was broken will never be the same again.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.