What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topi….

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought.

To live is to be haunted..

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself..

I've always tried to be pretty healthy, eating well and exercising regularly. I definitely give myself treats..

If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point..

All I am is what I'm going after..

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer..

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see.

Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise..

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this..

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and….

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone..

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have ….

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can ….

Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and si….

So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen m….

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done..

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative….

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?.

It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that ….