I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind

Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.