When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world

as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it

Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour of plums.

Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow

Do not hate someone else’s ‘shine’…but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is.

I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.

I'm not really picky. Just as long as it's not the harder style of rap - anything that's about being on the come-up or your wealth doesn't go that well with marimbas.