The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

To always trust my instincts, to always believe I have something to offer — no matter how meaningless or stupid it may be — and to never listen to anyone who tells you ‘no.’

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

[I think] everybody should see a dermatologist.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Let there be no innovation; keep to what has been handed down.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.