In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

When love is not madness it is not love.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.