"Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness."

“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.”

“My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.”

“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press

“I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, Katja Bandlow, Neil Philip (2004). “Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.”

“Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”

“I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.”