If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Never submit we are all equals

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

Loneliness is not lack of companion

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.