It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

You Keep Looking at what you want but you can’t have it, and once you have it it will never be the same. Sign of times

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

All limitations are self-imposed.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

I like Cilantro, but you don't have to.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.