I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.

Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you?

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

Making love with you is even more wonderful than making music."He drew her closer. "Och, Sarah, you _are_ my music.

[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]"My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.

I won't apologize for who I am