Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Be courageous! First win the fear of failure to win the game of life.

Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.