How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.