I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.