A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.

Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...

Once an angel said to the dreamer, "You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world".

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side - unacceptable.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.

Dream Big. Start small. Act now.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.