Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers.