Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.