She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

You can kiss me if you like, " she said.Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona, " he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

You've already said you were going to kill me, " Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Artists are always young.

Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.