When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

Terry Pratchett

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English Proverb

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

Mates such as they must stand by one another

Mary Grant Bruce

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

Charles Schumer

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Elizabeth Taylor

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Amit Ray