Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

In war everybody is a prisoner.