I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage.

It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…