“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

“Love as thou wilt”

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”

“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”

“I am a Warrior of Virtue, Nenya, the Water Warrior. Ardan is safe at last. That is all that matters. That is all that will ever matter...”

“Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.”

“His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.”