Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes

..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Life begins only when we cross the borders and not definitely before!

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.