“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”

“But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”

“Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.”

“If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.”

“Wizard's Second RuleThe greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”

“As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”

“Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”