He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Those who are made can be unmade.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

Reality always wins.

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

There's a point when you have to stop fightin' the whole world.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.