“The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion’ Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. ‘You just have to know how to look at it”

“Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.”

“Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”

“Having a title does not make you entitled.”

“Even the greatest showman alive could not reveal the trick behind the magic of her eyes.”

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”

“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”

“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world……I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom……and I’ve decided you’re a pillock.[click on the thumbnail, art by Andrew Christine]”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?”

“Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.”

“A moment’s beginning ends in a moment”

“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”