"I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power."

“Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.”

“My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.”

“It’s true: Medium has the best web-based editor I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen them all.”

“I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.”

“I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?”

“I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.”

Source : Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

“Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.”

Source : "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.