Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.