Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard, ” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

That's the thing about empathy—even people with an abundance of it can run out.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

what you don't know, you don't miss

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

Lost is the time that you don't spend for love.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.