...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.