I am very good at groveling.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."

I came home and found that my son was taking drugs - my very best ones too!

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed