The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering

In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.

Life does not happen to you, it happens for you. Savor every flavor.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.