The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.

Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".