as a little boy you thought that a wizard was someone who could do  anything. i used to think that too. we all did. and meanwhile the truth is that as the real power of a man grows as his knowledge expands, but the path he can walk on narrows: until, in the end, one does not choose anything and does fully only what he has to do."  - --from the earthsea trilogy Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand, and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name."