There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

What you can't be with, won't let you be.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.