Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Decorate your life and home to represent the vivid hues of your radiant soul. Share your brilliance.

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

My life is not just about the past.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.