From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-06:
"You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at least he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he *must do*. . . ." -- Ursula Le Guin, from A Wizard of Earthsea.(submitted to the mailing list by Jeannette Cezanne)