... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Those who are made can be unmade.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

It's very nice to feel. You're nothing. You're just nothing when you're near a volcano.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.