You have to believe in it to get it...

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

Burn yourself with the fire of love to enjoy the fiery, burning beauty of love.

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.