If you die, Lily ... I’ll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

If I had a reality show, it would probably be called “Keeping Fit With Jesse Tyler Ferguson” because then I’d be forced to hit the gym every day.

Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.