Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.

Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

When someone falls, ” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.

Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

To one who knocks, the door will open.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.