The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.