After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.