There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.

Long distance relationship is like a dream, It can be SWEET, It can be SADandIt can also be a NIGHTMARE.

The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

I do not improvise in heels.

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.