The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers.

Experience every failure closely because each failure is taking you closer to your goal and preparing you to be the unbeatable.

What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.