"I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy."

“In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.”

“There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.”

“Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.”

“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”

“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”

Source : Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.157, RosettaBooks

“I'm 49, I've had a brain haemorrhage and a triple bypass and I could still go out and play a reasonable game of rugby union. But I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.”

Source : "Quotes of the Week". www.independent.co.uk. October 20, 1995.

“In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?”

“You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.”