A Wizard of Earthsea

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

You thought, as a boy, that a an is one who can do anything. So i thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...

He who throws away his power is filled sometimes with a far greater power.

Are you messenger or message?

What is a boat but a thing that doesn't leak water.

Those who travel thus say no word carelessly.

She is like a little fish, a minnow, that swims in a clear creek, defenseless, yet you cannot catch her.