I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The cost of anything is the focused energy you are prepared to bring to bear to pursue it.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.

Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.

Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.

Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.

The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there are powerful ways in which books organise, and clarify our concerns – and in this sense simplify.

I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture," Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.

But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.