Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

The rule of money is it must be earned.

Your joy ensures your life experiences, always serve to support you - along life’s chosen path.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.