Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

When someone falls, ” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

Loneliness is a shadow of death

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

He that sowes trusts in God.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it