Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

My father was in the First World War.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.