Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

We are brothers and sisters. We are a sacred family.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.

It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.