We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

Do not give up. Be strong!

The four abiding abodes, The ideal attitude for a follower of the Buddhist teaching to maintain towards other living beings.

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.