Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

The soul knows its sorrow.

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

I like my coffee hot and strong. Like I like my women: hot and strong...with a spoon in them.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.