Who hath no head, needes no heart.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.