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.

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.

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

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.

The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.