You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be

Maybe he was dangerous, but for some reason, she trusted him.

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.

I don't like pop music.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.