With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

Social media: a fine tool for radicalised idiots to find each other, a promised land for the pub bores and Champ Man anoraks of the nation.

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.