"Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be."

“Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.”

“Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird”

“With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.”

Source : Charles Simeon, William Carus, Charles Pettit McIivaine (Bp.), Daniel Wilson (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: with a selection from his writings and correspondence”, p.518

“Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.”

“It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.”

“There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.”

“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...”

“I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.”