It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.
Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didnt just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.
The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.
How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.