Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

God's leaders should be motivated by humility and love.

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.