And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

I belong nowhere and to no one.