I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

Sooner or later usually means too late

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.