One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

The man is in his work, read it if you want to know about him.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.

To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.