If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.