If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

Jump every hurdle. If you feel like everything negative has happened to you, you were given these obstacles because the Universe knows that you are strong enough to handle it.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.

You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.