Terry Brooks

Let me tell you something you haven__ learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn__ matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events__hey all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn__ have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don__ even notice at first, and then one day it__ there. You wake up and you just don__ have the fire anymore._ He smiled...

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these... detours. Perhaps, just once, the uncovering should be left to someone else."Qui-Gon looked suddenly sad. "No, Obi-Wan. Secrets must be exposed when found. Detours must be taken when encountered. And if you are the one who stands at the crossroads or the place of concealment, you must never leave it to another to act in your place.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.