I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull.

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.