After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

A child is never the author of his own history.

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Hades smiled coldly. "Hello, Father. You're looking...young.""Hades, " Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegi

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.