If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.