Quotes from Michael Scott

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

The best lie is wrapped around a core of truth.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.

You are not living, you are surviving.

What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.

Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. [...] Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.