And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE