This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

What worries you, masters you.

John Locke

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

Danish proverb

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

Saint John of the Cross

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren Bennis

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

J.K. Rowling

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Theodore Parker

When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies. The smell of their skin, its saltiness. The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek. The strong firm hands, the way they rest on the curve of my back.

A.M. Harte

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Luther Campbell

I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.

Katherine Jenkins

O, hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death!

William Shakespeare

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Kristin Scott Thomas