“Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Deans The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; its the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.”

“Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage to be oneself, no matter what others might say.”

“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”

“Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of ones self.”

“In with the new, out with the old. Thats what were told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.”

“Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.”

“Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past... It's gone! Learn from it and move on...”

“Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.”

“Men, discouraged by their failure to accomplish exactly what they desire, often speak of their lives as purposeless, but it is idle talk, for, in fact, no intelligent life which concerns itself vig...”

“One thought follows on the other, they are not distinct objects with clear boundaries; rather, one thought anticipates the next and thereby contains it. The thought that comes afterward contains th...”