Drink the sun’s warmth and the moon’s icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.

An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop, ’ declares Elsie.

There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

When we separate music from life we get art.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."