His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.