Everyone is beautiful but (unfortunately), we will usually stick to the person that reflects our confidence of beauty.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?'

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.