Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

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.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!

Jesus changes everything about a person’s life, from the obvious to the unseen. He shatters black and white into brilliant color and shakes the asleep until they’re wide awake.

She’s a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

My standard comment is, If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.