“If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!”

“To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.”

“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

“It seemed like today's culture placed the value of life below so many other things that have little importance in the long run.”

“This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but none is the whole truth. If you limit yourselves to one way of seeing, one truth, you will limit your power. You will also place limits on the kinds of spells you can cast, as well as their strength. To be a good magician, you must see in many ways. You must be flexible. You must be willing to learn from different sources. And you must always remember that the truths you see are incomplete.”

“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”