Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.' A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?' To what it represents,' said Aven. But I don't believe in what it represents,' said Jack. Prayers aren't for the deity,' said Aven. 'They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.' Can't you do that without praying to a dead Greek god?' Sure,' said Aven. 'But how often would anyone do that, if not in prayer?

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?