Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

Real gs move in silence like lasagna.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.