Virtue alone is true nobility.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

I'm all in favor of the president tweeting.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.