Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.

Do not be afraid of that which should be afraid of you

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Some things are too good to be true and truly are good and true.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting

Bad emotions can be hidden with a smile on the face

I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.

I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.