"There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle."

“The Indian bowlers picked me for sledging when I was batting well. They called me school boy. But I was enjoying it and I had answered it with my bat,”

“Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.”

“Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.”

Source : "How metals and a ruthless streak put Russian patriot at top of the rich list". Interview With Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2007.

“It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.”

“Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.”

Source : "Let's give older mothers a break" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 01, 2012.

“The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.”

“I think girls are the most beautiful when they become a mother.”

“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”