Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.