We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.