I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.