Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.

To have seen something means it has come into one’s understanding. To have known something means it has come into one’s knowledge. There is a vast difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’.

The spirit of life, the divinity of the soul.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I'm overheating.