A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Jane Austen

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Dario Argento

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Theresa May

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

George Henry Lewes

My wife's got a face like a saint a Saint Bernard.

Rodney Dangerfield

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

William Shatner

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Ray Blanton

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Ben Okri