In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

In the dark, everything is scary

We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating