However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.