Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.