Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

It women knew what we were thinking they'd never stop slapping us.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

The path is revealed in the treading.

I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.