Bettany Hughes quotes

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television.

My guilty pleasure at the end of the day is an old thesaurus. I know that can lead to overwriting, but if words such as lambent, pyretic and boscy exist, how sad they should stay recondite.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and 'Arabic' numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia.

Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built with an anti-earthquake technology still employed today, 3,500 years on.