The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

You’re really a good girl, poor you.

What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.