I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

I lost my family, ” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

In nothingness, there is everything, energy. The ending is a beginning.

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.