The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.

All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access.

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.