... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

Myth is someone else's religion.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.