The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens!

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.