Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people