Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

To each his own magic.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things in fact are better by morning.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

The joy of dressing is an art.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!