“Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -”

“You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.”

“There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.”

“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.”

“Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.”

“We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.”

“We are to call hares ad become mushrooms," Jermayan explained kindly. "Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror." "Yes of course," Kellen said, with only a touch of irony."That makes perfect sense.”