We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?