“The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.”

“Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?”

“How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?”Mikel smiled, and it was a beautiful smile. “One tree at a time,” He said.”

“He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained.”

“how shall we go about this?" Dermot asked. He was blond and Claude was dark; the looked like gorgeous bookends.”

“The sleeper dreams of an egg and knows an egg. He dreams the egg is hatched and a bird rises from the shell. Awake, he sees an egg and knows a star, and the star will shine. But how shall we wake the sleeper from his dreaming? How shall we enter his chamber and wake him to power? We can show him the door, but how shall we give him the key?”