In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Life isn't all about money but this life is nothing without it!

Thinking can be done best when you’re in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals?

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.