She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.