If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

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.