Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Nothing should become a stumbling block in your relationship with the people who surround you

The deepest truth however is, that no love begins unconditional, but the only one that grows to be it, is the one that survives the breaking of all conditions, yet standing tall.

Why should I be perfect.. when I'm already imperfectly perfect. And that's what is unique and perfect about me.

Nerves provide me with energy.... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

Money just draws flies.

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

As you are, so is the world.