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.

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

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.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

the holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become apresent love.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me one one breath at a time.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I do things with a lot of feeling.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.