And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.