But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.

But you've looked forward to this trip for so long.""And now I won't have it to look forward to any longer.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.