I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.