If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Libraries are the future of reading.

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

You could make me say it again, " he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.