PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

You get what you're good enough to take.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith!

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.