My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.

This world has need of song and sword.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.