Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

A daring faith, a willing spirit.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

If your life is ever going to get better you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.