It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Ben Affleck

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Loretta Young

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Boris Pasternak

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Mother Jones

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Scott Westerfeld

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Mal Pancoast

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nick Clegg

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Kate Atkinson

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Bernie Sanders

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

Lena Dunham

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset