The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

Donna Dixon

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

C.S. Lewis

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Jonathan Kozol

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

Steven Wright

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Michael Gove

I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

Edith Cavell

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Sarah Gilbert

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Stephen Richards

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.

Bauvard

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major