Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Work always makes a difference.

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

I think I'm a bit gruffer than I used to be, and I'm certainly older.

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

I don't do things that are illegal.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.