All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

Money is just another word for power.

The solution to any problem is a positive attitude.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.