It is far too late for bloodless hands.

Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

Even in peace there is war.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

Seconds feel like centuries when I am not in your presence.

Throughout the empire, it was whispered that although the husband waded through mud, the wife walked upon water. She, it was said, was graced with a gentle touch which tamed the most vicious of men.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

Came they, in their droves, one after the other, hundred after hundred, thousand after thousand, engulfing all before them, each line a merciless wave from a boundless sea of bold men.

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

Power is a beautiful thing.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

Is God an end or is He a means?

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.