Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.