I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.

Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.