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

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

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.