They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

Improving the human condition takes little effort

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.