I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!

she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.