The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Pain is the biggest power of love.