We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.