A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.