Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy.

Loving God and your neighbor cannot exist without the other

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)