“The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That’s all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.”

“Remember that when you throw a pebble into any pond, it will disturb the surface. Always be sure of your reason for casting the stone, for those ripples will come back to you eventually.-- Jala, Healer to the Royal House of Soris”

“There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.”

“When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.”

“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ”

“When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.”