There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.