Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.

If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say...

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

Illusion never changed into something real.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

I asked for nothing from Theresa [May]. She asked for nothing from me. That's not the way we work.