God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.