Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

Trauma is personal.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.