Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Regardless of your past, of your own beliefs, I promise you that you are worthy of the remarkable life you so want to live.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.