as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.