I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.