Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.