Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

All things are possible for whoever believes.

How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.