Fear is a powerful enemy, but not one too strong to overcome.

Keep your sword close and your friends closer.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

"A fairy tale is a land of personal escape. Reality bites but we are forced to bite back or else we become the damsel in eternal distress.

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.