Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Anon.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Terry Pratchett

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Scott Turow

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

William Shakespeare

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Freeman Dyson

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

David Rockefeller

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

Abraham Lincoln

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

Mark Ruffalo