Sarie is such a comely girl, " he said to them, "even the evil spirits will be heartbroken to see her hurt."- King Chuka

Mother, I share your concern, but I do not know how to be afraid of what I cannot change."- Sari

We have accepted it as our unique problem and the fate of our kingdom and have found ways to live on without the sun. We all can be happy if we choose to be."- Sari

My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish.

Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever.

Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.

When you are the answer that must remain hidden, then you have everything to be worried about when so much people are asking the same question.” - Sari

If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.