Our Quotes

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

Children reinvent your world for you.

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

The youth is the hope of our future.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.