Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.
There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.
Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.