Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

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.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.

The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.