An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

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.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.