"Peace cannot be unilateral."

“But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.”

“I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.”

“The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making”

“To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.”

“I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.”

Source : William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.”

“I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.”

“Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.”