It’s a mistake to think too much about the goal and to ask too often about it.

It took me years to realize that a single piece of chocolate tastes better than an entire bar.

Three-quarters of all English children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates of the same country;

Professor Rory Wilson of Swansea University has researched the degree to which illness, hormones, nutrition and emotions affect the movements of both humans and cockroaches.

‘A view needs to be deserved.’

She had never seen her child, and she lay gazing at her daughter’s smile, studying every movement and embracing her.

‘Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.’

Aldrin reminds me that anything, even walking on the Moon, can be remembered as a defeat.

the two most important reasons why I have been able to complete long walking trips on skis are that I prepared well and I tried.