As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.

You lying liar, " Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.