The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

Make sure you speak out and loud enough to be heard.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.