I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.

How much straight forward you are

Your success lies in your own hands. You must therefore not wait for the grass to become greener by magic. You have the hands to irrigate your own territory by doing what is expected of you!

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

I was a show-off as a kid and loved to dress up. I was constantly in costume, drawing mustaches on with eyeliner and letting my sister plait my hair and all that.

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.