Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.