You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

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.

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

Without Courage, Hope is a Universal liar.

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone.

I definitely keep myself secret.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.