If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better.""Define BETTER with that guy.""Not all fangs and raaaaar.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

... I have just experienced the most passionate kiss I've ever received from a guy, and it was on the freaking forehead!

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

I don't mind being listed alphabetically. I do mind being treated alphabetically.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared