if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

Every song I am listening toIt has an imaginary story about you.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different.

I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him.

...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?