In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

You build walls to fortify your heart, and blame on others for your loneliness.

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.