He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

Whenever you are angry shut your mouth. So that you can save yourself from loosing the beloved ones.

Every time I converse with you, I feel closer to home

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

I never went to drama school.

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.