To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. - Douglas Adams

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.