What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

Cassandra Clare

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Robert A. Cook

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Barbara de Angelis

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

Janet Street-Porter

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe

One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde

A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Breckin Meyer

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Aldous Huxley