"But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?"

“To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.”

“It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.”

“You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?”

“Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.”

Source : "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. May 17, 2007.

“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.”

“Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.”

“People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.”

Source : "'War stopper' Drogba has Africa waiting on fitness". www.mirror.co.uk. June 4, 2010.

“Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.