I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.