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.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It’s only as good as the skill of its user, and it’s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special—something more than you can do for yourself—you can’t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that’s free to not be what you had in mind.

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

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.