While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

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.

Run your own race of life, with a single minded vision of purpos

If you set a clear standard for yourself

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

If you count all fights like everybody else does, including Rickson, who says he has 400 fights; if you count like that, I have a million.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.