Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Our dreams make us large.

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.