Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Benjamin Disraeli

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Orison Swett Marden

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings...

Paulo Coelho

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Leona Lewis

... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and hot in my ear and a note of tenderness was there at the end like a lovely curlicue and I liked him because there was no disguising the honest male gladness that went from his body out to mine.

Glen Duncan

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Willard Gibbs

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard Milhous Nixon