What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are.