When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness.

You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

He thinks we're made of money.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.