The journey of life is tough

She leaves a tiny part of her heart everywhere she travels and memories from the place fill up the void in her heart and soul.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me and remind them of all the promise I see in them.

Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.