Ken Follett
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 "I’ve
worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not
to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are
laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work
harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily
take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and
doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful
they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule
them with a light touch."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
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"To
someone standing in the nave, looking down the
length of the church toward the east, the round
window would seem like a huge sun exploding into
innumerable shards of gorgeous color."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
"He had been granted his life's wish-but
conditionally."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
"Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had
never had before, that the past was like a story, in
which one thing led to another, and the world was
not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that
could be comprehended. "
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
"The most expensive part of building is the
mistakes."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
"His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of
Philip pleased him too."
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)
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