With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I didn't dream about you last night. I woke up in fear.

Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame.

Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides

I want to feel intoxicated from inhaling the scent of you.

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.