It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.