Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Love has no Terms and Conditions

Enemies and easy to get and even easier to keep. But friends are hard to get and even harder to keep.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

We are human beings, not ants.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.