The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.

Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it.

You’ll never change the world just by complaining.

The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.

Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit.

Justice never sleeps.

Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one’s raw individual experience.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.