Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.

Whatever you create in your life you must first create in your imagination

...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!