If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground there are a thousand ways to go home again.

It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)