“Happiness is like a bird. If it choosesto sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a cage.”

“Sometimes you have to go through pain to appreciate happiness." P.157 of "Two Weddings.”

“When you forgive someone who has hurt you,you liberate yourself." page 158 of "Two Weddings.”

“But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

“There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.”

“A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.”

“Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.”