I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me as a child it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling the darker blinder strata of character are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making and directly perceive how events happen and how work is actually done.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

If an idea is indeed sensible it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

As a pastor you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit you get invited into the center of the event whether or not you know the people.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding or event.