Lord, you're Irish, " said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.

The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Government is best which governs least