“Sense and deal with problems in their smallest state, before they grow bigger and become fatal.”

“Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.”

“adult’s role is to “teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it.”

“There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.”

“Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.”

“It's like when you find out your lover has been unfaithful: in one horrible instant everything she was to you, the whole beautiful enchantment, falls away, and you see her as she really is - mortal, machinating, tethered like everyone else to a little patch of space and time. And the worst of it is that you knew all along.”

“I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.”

“The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.”