I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances!

Had I known, I would not have left you, alone beneath those stars, on the night when I last saw you, not knowing it was the last.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.