George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.