All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

History is no criminal court

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Her brain said, he’s like a brother to you. Her body rejected that notion absolutely. Her heart was confused as hell.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.