“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”

“And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”

“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.”

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”