I suppose you’re young, ’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Grumbling is the death of love

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

I just have a lot off different influences.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.