A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic

The Teacher of the Truth trains in righteousness.

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts, ... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!