Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

Fair and unfair are for children

I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.