Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.