What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Theresa May

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Kenny Loggins

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

Paulo Coelho

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

Willie Nelson

The heart is half a prophet.

Yiddish Proverb

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Anne McCaffrey

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

Captain J. G. Stedman

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

Lil Wayne

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Adam Savage