I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.