But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!

One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.