I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

You have no future when the past rules you.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

To know the world, one must construct it

Knowing and believing are two different things.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.