The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.