Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.