When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

Regret, albeit raw and relentless, is almost always unremarkable.

It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie, The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?