I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

My fitness journey will be a lifelong journey.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?