The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.