Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

When you think about people, you give them power.