Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.