There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it's needed.

Typical St Mary’s. When the chips are down we don’t whine and we don’t run – we do some damage.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

The transformation will come from leadership.