I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Englishmen must have an island.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.