You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

An idle mind was a recipe for disaster. Bathsheba wasn’t just teetering on the edge

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.