Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.

Isaac Leib Peretz

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

Fritz Mondale

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

Bryan Singer

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

Jo Brand

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

Alex Harris

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose

Friedrich Nietzsche

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Virginia Woolf

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Victor Hugo