We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.

One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.