...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

Love is the only prayer I know.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin

God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand...

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.

Beware what you speak, ' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, ” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.

… but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

A poet is a silent singer

So who do I want to be tomorrow?

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

I was quite naughty at school.

[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.

I could drink a case of you.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.