Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed the most vicious of men.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

Power is a beautiful thing.

What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

Time travel is awesome....And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it...The first time.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain