Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

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

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

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

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.