Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

Bill Murray

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Haruki Murakami

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible

Luthfy Es-Haq

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Source Unknown

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Will McDonough

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine.

Sarah Alderson