“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.”

“The college dreamed on-- awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.”

“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”

“With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.”