Where there's fear, there is power.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.