A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Love is friendship set on fire.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Im so happy with The Blacklist. Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

Occupation alone is happiness.