He realized, you see, that he was stupid enough to fall in love with a woman he never saw with his eyes, but that's okay, my dear, because the heart doesn't need eyes to fall in love.

Always go after the girl. No matter what she says. Chase her.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

I think that women are not treated fairly in the media.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.