Men of honour will always outstay men of undeserved rank.

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

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.

Power is a beautiful thing.

What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Her lips were frosted with sugar and faeriedust.

A right way, a wrong way, and a GREENWAY.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.