“We were definitely happy with the win, but we feel like we have more refinement to do. We're not satisfied quite yet, and we're hoping to peak in May.”

“It gives us hope, a bit. But we have the impression that all these visits, all these demonstrations, all these interviews, they've changed nothing. Or at least only very, very slowly.”

“We figure we probably expanded his life by three years. We know he's not going to be here until he's 90 like we all hope to be.”

“I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering if you would come with me. But then I realized that you're dirty.”

“I just told them, look, we've got to go on a run. I mean, our playoff hopes are on the line here. We've got to fight a little bit.”

“I ask you all to pray for a miracle. We all hope a miracle will happen so Ariel Sharon can come back to his family, to his people.”

“We hope they will realize that human nature contains both compassion and cruelty and that we all are capable of both. In either case, you are responsible. Nobody gets off free.”

“I hope they don't let Brett Lee anywhere near it [a portrait of himself] with a black pen because I might end up with a moustache like Merv Hughes's”

The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about.

The new race of warriors would be their hope, their salvation, their loves' destiny. But they too could be tainted. They too could be seduced by the black forces they had been created to fight against.