The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The reason a lot of people can’t find happiness is because they don’t look for it. They allow themselves to be stuck in the same situations. Sometimes happiness comes with the courage to break free.

Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.