"If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it."

“When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.”

“I wasn't the most popular kid in school.”

“I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.”

Source : "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview With Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”

“I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.”

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“Beautiful things make people happy.”