I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

I'm a songwriter first.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.