"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business."

"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home."

"Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena."

"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."