“As a librarian I learned one of life’s great truths: you don’t have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

“Doctor: Nyssa, we can't get you out of there just yet. I'm sorry.Nyssa: I know.Doctor: The TARDIS has gone missing. I'm sorry, I have to concentrate-Nyssa: I know, Doctor. You don't have to keep saying you're sorry.Doctor: We'll come for you. When all of this is over we'll follow the comet and get you back.Nyssa: You once said much the same thing to somebody else.”

“Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.”

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.”

“Grace just is. Nobody can explain it, and it's not something you can deserve. Whether you recognize it or not, whether you feel grateful for it or not, it just is. Guilty or innocent, condemned or redeemed, when you think that you can't go on, and when you think you've already gone on, grace is wider and deeper than you think, and it can change far more that you ever imagined.There is no place where anything begins or ends, but by grace, everything comes in it's time.”