It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

To the determined mind, nothing is impossible

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.

I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.