Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

London now has its own John Grisham.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life.

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.