Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.