I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Some things never changed.

I make NO apologies for my creativity.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.