It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.

All is well that ends well.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.