I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

What is rank if not protection from the consequences which fall upon common men?

If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

Be greatly encouraged!

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.