Why, yes. I am a strange wonder. The most special of snowflakes! Born out of time, forever running to catch up to it!

Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

What we've inherited from our ancestors has never existed to this extent before. And if we fail to preserve it, it will never, ever exist again. So we cannot fail.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.