People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

We find ourselves in the arms of the Creator.

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine, ' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.