Don’t throw away God’s plan for you just to chase a dream of your own making.

Belief about God is religion. Belief in God is faith.

Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.