Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.