Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

Gender is but a doorway to a vast inner universe of ultimate relationships between oneness and duality, manifest and divine, being and nonbeing, temporal and eternal.

Rain, hold me in your glassy arms—cover me in wet kisses

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.