When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.

Love just feels like the truth

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.