At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

There is no sin in the realm of taste.

If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

There is always more information than attention