I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

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.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Life's messy, " he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential