People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

In The End We Are Our Choices_nickc

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily sketches of life...

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing