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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

I resisted the urge to hurl my plate at him. “Of course not, Ian. It’s just that normally at this hour, Bones and I are fucking like rabbits, so I get twitchy when I have to wait for him to climb aboard.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.

There is always a way. Always.

I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't?

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.