The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

So the gods, ” Moash said, nursing his own drink, “were pleased that you solved problems on your own . . . by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?”“Hush, ” Rock said. “Is good story.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.