I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.