Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.