I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.