Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Those who are made can be unmade.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

No matter what happens, keep on hitting the ball.

We have trials to face because our Heavenly Father loves us. His purpose is to help us qualify for the blessing of living with Him and His Son, Jesus Christ, forever in glory and in families.

Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.