If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you. Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.

A heart consumed with bitterness will turn to stone. An old Lightkeepers adage, spoken by Boaz to Luka.

So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.

There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.