This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.

Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

I don't think too much about awards.

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.