"The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour."

“Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.”

“Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did.”

“Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.”

“Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.”

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

“I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.”

“Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.”

“Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.”