I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

The meat smelt rank and was very tough, the soup was greasy and of a curious flavour, but it was a wonderful meal after all these hungry weeks.

There will always be con artists, I know that, ” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real.

Sending love to all those who are trying their best to be nice and gentle despite being in the midst of negative as well as critical people…

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.